Personally if you're sitting up there staring a lap top (Phoenicia, Plaid,
Richard Devine, Kid 606, etc) it's not a live performance in my opinion
(even if they are dancing around on stage with their shirt off). I have been
pretty keen on what these acts were actually doing live and most have just
been playing back sequences with out any real variation from the album.
Either that our setting up a very long track and doing live effects
processing/knob twiddling which I find to be quite boring (Autechre).
Mouse on Mars, Mum, and Tortoise spend 3-4 hours doing a sound check, lug
equipment all over the globe, improvise and communicate with both the crowd
and each other on stage. That is a performance. I refuse to pay to see any
more lap top "performances". I'll go home and listen to the "performance" in
the comfort of my own home. To be honest I would rather go hear a DJ. At
least they can keep a consistant groove.
I am a lap top performer, so I shouldn't talk. I am however working with
musicians on a live set. This, to me, is the necessary progression of
electronic music in the live realm. Do any of you agree?
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